Monday, June 24, 2013

June 23, 1945; Deth/Fighting Continues on Okinawa:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 23, 1945:

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING,
JUNE 23, 1945

Die-Hard
Japs

Slaughtered

On
Okinawa

Resistance Is Slight,

However, Nimitz

Reports

By Associated Press

GUAM, June 23.—Slaughter of
Japanese die-hards on Okinawa, where more than 90,000 have been killed, and
more mass, surrenders, swelling the bag well beyond 4,000 continued Friday as
the American flag waved in victory over that potential staging base for -the
next invaion.

Nippon still lashed back from an
invasion-jittery homeland with the air arm, however, sinking two light American
'vessels, heavily damaging an auxiliary unit and slightly damaging two other
light units, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz acknowledged in today's communique.

596
Japs Killed

Tenth Army patrols, working over
three weakly resisting pockets, killed 596 Nipponese in all sectors Thursday
night and early Friday.

Emperor Hirohito

May Take Over Japan

By Associated Press

A Tokyo - radio commentator,
unidentified, said Friday that if Nippon's war situation should become more serious
Emperor Hirohito possibly would invoke "imperial supreme authority"
and take personal command of the empire.

Aparri, Luzon Port,
Foils,

Bottling Up Jap
Forces

By Associated PressMANILA,
June 23,—Aparri, northern Luzon port at

the mouth of the Cagayan valley,
has been captured by elements of the U.S. 6th Army reinforced by Filipino guerrillas,
General Douglas MacArthur announced Saturday.

This bottles up the large Japanese
forces still in the Cagayan Valley to the southward and seals the enemy's only
escape port from Luzon.

Forces
Spreading Out

MacArlhur's communique said that
American and guerrilla forces were spreading: out rapidly southward. Guerrillas
previously had captured the Cagayan Province capital of Tuguegarao, 65 road
miles south of Aparri, while the U.S. 37th Division took Ilagan, 35 miles
farther south.

B-29s Destroy

Japan's Last

Naval Arsenal

By Associated Press

GUAM, Saturday, June 23.—Hundreds
of American Superforts blasted a huge Japanese naval arsenal and five aircraft
factories in daylight Friday with 3,000 tons

of demolition bombs, expanding
the destruction already spread over more than 112 square miles of Nippon's
industrial areas in previous B-29 raids.

Tokyo broadcast a Japanese'
communique claim that 26 of the Superforts that pounded Honshu Island targets
were shot down.

In Washington the 20th Airforce
headquarters announces that four planes, were missing.

Japanese air opposition was
ineffective over all the targets, the communique said, but added that flak
varied from moderate to intense.

Carrier
Planes

Hit
Sumatra,

Tokyo
Claims

By Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, June 22.—

Radio Tokyo Friday reiterated its
report that two Allied task forces were prowling off Sakishima, southwest of
Okinawa, and said two waves of Allied carrier-borne planes strafed the Medan sector
of Sumatra on Wednesday.

Another broadcast sought to pep
up the home front with the claim that Japanese troops had recaptured
"several islets" off Peleliu in the Palau group.

Claim
U.S. Casualties

Nipponese "army and
marine"forces, which have been
hidingout on Peleliu since the
Americaninvasion last year, have
taken a toll of 'more than 1,000
enemy casualties" in island-hopping
raids since May, Tokyo declared.

Southern Palau is held by Americans.
Northern islands in the group remain in Japanese possession.

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December 7, 1941 had a great impact on E. T. and others that remember the attack on Pearl Harbor. Prior to the attack, many of us were reporting on Current Events that led up to the outbreak of World War II, September 6, 1939. E. T. was 15 years old and living in Ellensburg Washington. The impact was profound, we lost acquaintances and friends in the attack that President Roosevelt referred to as a “DAY OF INFAMY'.
These events which were “Current Events” in 1942 to 1946 have been preserved by
“Access NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE”; E. T. is presenting copies of these files to generate an interest in our past history that should not be forgotten.
Lives were changed as America was forced into the conflict; my older brother and many of his friends were drafted or enlisted in the Military services and E. T. served in the U. S. Maritime Service and Merchant Marine on three ships during the conflict.